This year we decided to ditch the security lines, strip searches and luggage fees and get in the old roadster for a good old-fashioned family road trip.

We’ve been taking this trip for years now and always via air plane, so when we announced this year’s mode of transportation would be our car, the kids’ response was less than enthusiastic. My 4-year-old was easily talked into the idea with a bribe of a new “Wild Kratts” DVD, but my 6-year-old, well, she was a different story.

“Why can’t we just fly? I will pay for it” she said in all seriousness.

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